Rick Perry and ACORN

[Lue C Fur]

Strippers and hookers? Hope you didn't hurt yourself with that stretch of your imagination.

TOS had that same stretch of imagination (Liberal blindness) when he said the repubs set up Anthony Weiner and supported him until he fell off the cliff.

 

[bbsam]

What a triumvirate.......Klein , TOS & Wkmac

Ahem...you speak like I'm not even here.

 

[moreluck]

Ahem...you speak like I'm not even here.

You've been tamed!

 

[trplnkl]

Ahem...you speak like I'm not even here.

I would have added you reluctantly in place of mac, but neither of you are really that ......well, you know.

 

[bbsam]

I would have added you reluctantly in place of mac, but neither of you are really that ......well, you know.

thanks...I think.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Ahem...you speak like I'm not even here.

You are in the background carrying their bags. (j/k)

 

[bbsam]

You are in the background carrying their bags. (j/k)

In black-face? No, that would be redundant. (j/k)

 

[wkmac]

Texas Gov. Rick Perry often talks like he’s ready to refight the Alamo—this time against Washington. He rails about the stimulus and the expansion of federal power while flirting with the idea of devolving control of entitlements to the states.
So when Perry officially announced he was throwing in his 40-gallon hat for next year’s Republican presidential nomination, critics were quick to warn of his extremist, radical small-government views. But Perry’s suit-and-tie-Republican record doesn’t match up to his pistol-packing, Texas-sized rhetoric.
Many of the warnings concern Perry’s allegedly extreme federalism. After reading the governor’s book, Fed Up: Our Fight to Save America From Washington, The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein described the governor’s federalism as “radical in scope,” but “not thoughtless.” Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum wondered whether Perry might be “too radical even for the Tea Party.” After investigating Perry’s positions on entitlements, Newsweek’s Andrew Romano reported that the governor “hints that he would do more to limit the power of the federal government—or at least attempt to do more—than any president since Calvin Coolidge.” At the Guardian, columnist Ana Marie Cox warned that if Perry got his way with federal regulation, “it would be total anarchy: Mad Max meets Dr. Moreau.”
“More than any of his fellow contenders,” Cox wrote, “Perry represents a bruising roll of the dice on America's future.” Is Perry really such an outlier? Not really. While he's frequently willing to stake out heated rhetorical territory, his actual governance is relatively mild in comparison.

Rick Perry’s Superficial Extremism

 

[Jones]

Rick Perry’s Superficial Extremism

You saying he's all hat?

 

[wkmac]

You saying he's all hat?

Actually I'm saying he's typically average!

This was an interesting read.

 

[wkmac]

RealClearPolitics June 4th 2011

As first reported by RealClearPolitics, allies of Texas Gov. Rick Perry have begun to quietly "nose around on his behalf" regarding a possible presidential campaign.
Last Wednesday, Perry conceded to Fox News' Greta van Susteren that he was "tempted" by a run for the White House. Two days later, in response to a question about a 2012 bid, Perry told the Austin American-Statesman, "I'm going to think about it."
A Perry run makes some sense. He's a three-term governor from a large Republican state with a solidly conservative record. And even at this somewhat late date, many grass-roots activists and members of the establishment alike are searching for a candidate with a profile (not unlike Perry's) who can satisfy their respective needs and, ideally, unite the party.
But if Rick Perry does step under the bright lights, there's at least one question that has the potential to hinder his pursuit of the GOP nomination: Why in early 2007 did he sign an executive order mandating that 11- and 12-year-old girls in Texas be given the vaccine Gardasil?......

The controversy over Perry's decision deepened as it came to light that his former chief of staff was a lobbyist for Merck and that his chief of staff's mother-in-law, Rep. Dianne White Delisi, was the state director of an advocacy group bankrolled by Merck to push legislatures across the country to put forward bills mandating the Gardasil vaccine for preteen girls.

Gardasil Rick

 

[UnconTROLLed]

RealClearPolitics June 4th 2011




Gardasil Rick

Yeah I mentioned this last week. May have had the story wrong, though...thought it was a HPV vaccine.

Interestingly , Rick Perry will probably end up #2 out of the GOP contenders...interesting because that he comes of a similar ilk of G.W (obviously) and G.W.s legacy may infact shy more bipartisan voters away.

 

[UnconTROLLed]

Huntsman doesn't support Mr. Perry

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?friend=/c/a/2011/08/20/MN1T1KPU9Q.DTL

 

[Jones]

Huntsman doesn't support Mr. Perry

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?friend=/c/a/2011/08/20/MN1T1KPU9Q.DTL

Huntsman is an intelligent man, but he doesn't have a chance in hell of winning the nomination. I'm not sure if that's correlation or causation.

 

[UnconTROLLed]

Huntsman is an intelligent man, but he doesn't have a chance in hell of winning the nomination. I'm not sure if that's correlation or causation.

But Jones, Rick Perry is a very intelligent man too. That D in Principles of Economics was hard-earned!

 

[trplnkl]

Yeah I mentioned this last week. May have had the story wrong, though...thought it was a HPV vaccine.

Interestingly , Rick Perry will probably end up #2 out of the GOP contenders...interesting because that he comes of a similar ilk of G.W (obviously) and G.W.s legacy may infact shy more bipartisan voters away.

Don't know why you are doubting that gardasil is an HPV vaccine? That's why it was developed. The main controversy in Texas over this was really about the bypassing the state legislature to put in the mandate. Different groups opposed the mandate for various reasons. Some thought it would promote promiscuity, some were opposed pf the nanny state idea because of parents rights to decide what is best for their children, others purely on political opposition. Because Perry is a politician I don't totally disregard the connection with Perry's former chief of staff. My opposition to the mandate was mainly with the timing, the drug had not been out long enough to know what all the possible side effects may be.

 

[trplnkl]

But Jones, Rick Perry is a very intelligent man too. That D in Principles of Economics was hard-earned!

OMG! he only got a D in economics one semester? Hang him, hang him high to a old oak tree. At least his records aren't sealed.

 

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OMG! he only got a D in economics one semester? Hang him, hang him high to a old oak tree. At least his records aren't sealed.

 

[moreluck]

Sometimes, the people with just so-so grades have an abundance of common/street sense on the side. I'll take a common sense person anytime over a brainiac only person. You can at least have a conversation with the former.

 

[bbsam]

Sometimes, the people with just so-so grades have an abundance of common/street sense on the side. I'll take a common sense person anytime over a brainiac only person. You can at least have a conversation with the former.

Yeah. And common sense is better than that traitor at the Federal Reserve.